All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.

One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.

I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian - for me - for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God's in the mix.

I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure out what their religious beliefs are.

Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.

By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.

Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.